EBSCO HOST

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EBSCO HOST Many Databases on one search portal

• Opening EBSCO Host
• Select to search All Databases
• by clicking on the hypertext link
• OR
• Select to search your subject area
• by clicking on the hypertext link

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EBSCO HOST Many Databases on one search portal

• Academic Search Premier Education, Science,
  Nursing, History, Social Science, Medicine, and
  other academic journals, both abstracts and full
  text
• ATLA Religion Database with Serials Religion,
  Christianity, Bible journals ATLA (American
  Theological Association) journals are full-text
• Business Source Elite Business journals, both
  abstracts and full text. Includes DOW information
  on 5000 companies
• CINAHL Nursing journals with abstract links to
  full text material in Academic Search Premier
• ERIC similar to askERIC. Abstracts of education
  journal articles and ERIC documents. Links to
  full text in Academic Search Premier. Links to
  our ERIC (from on-campus only) document
  subscription (EDRS)
• Newspaper Source full text articles from
  national newspapers such as the Washington Post
• Pre-CINAHL abstracts only of preprint nursing
  journal articles

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EBSCO HOST Many Databases on one search portal

• PsychARTICLES full text APA (American
  Psychological Association) journal research
  articles
• Regional Business News full text regional news
  articles from metropolitan and regional U.S.
  newspapers including the Arizona Republic
• Religion and Philosophy abstracts and full-text
  of religious and philosophy journals
• High School Resources
• MAS Ultra School Edition provides full text
  for 550 publications on popular general interest
  and current events including pamphlets, full text
  reference books, biographies, primary source
  documents, and an image collection of flags, maps
  and photo
• Primary Search provides full text for 60
  magazines for elementary school research
  including reading level indicators
• Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia entries
  over a variety of subjects
• EBSCO Animals provides information on a variety
  of topics relating to animals
• Searchasaurus K through 6th grade, offers full
  text articles, general and animal encyclopedias
  and a large image collection

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EBSCO HOST

• Selecting Databases
• Check the Box before the database you choose
• to search
• Or select multiple databases
• by checking the boxes before
• each database
• Hit the Continue button
• Academic Search Premier and
• Business Source Elite databases containing full
  text articles, are default databases

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EBSCO HOST

• Use EBSCO HOST Menu bar
• SEARCH TABS
• Basic (default) enter search terms using
  connecting Boolean operators such as And Or
• Advanced searches for a specific article title
  or author or journal name
• Databases switch/change or add databases to
  your search
• NOTE Limiters will be different for each
  database you are searching

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EBSCO HOST

• Utility Tool Bar
• New Search click on link to return to default
  Search screen
• View Folder click on link to view results
  placed in the Folder
• Preferences click on link to change the format
  and sorting of your Results List
• Help click on Help to open help screens
• Sub-Toolbar Tabs
• Key word (default)
• Subject Terms alphabetical list of subjects
• Publications use this to find out if EBSCO has
  a journal within its databases
• Indexes allows searching by indexed fields
• Library Holdings use to find out if GCU owns a
  journal indexed in EBSCO
• References searches the references of an article

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EBSCO HOST

• Language Feature
• To perform searches in another language, use the
  pull down menu and choose your language (10
  selections listed)
• Search screen automatically changes to the
  selected language
• If performing search in Spanish, result
  titles/citations, PDF, HTML and full text are
  given in Spanish
• OR Perform search in English and
• View/change HTML results to Spanish, French, or
  German by using pull down menu
• Hit Translate button to change to language
  selection and view article in chosen language

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EBSCO HOST

• Creating Your Account
• Signing-In you do not need to create an account
  to use EBSCO. An account advantage is the ability
  to save items into your account folder, remaining
  in your folder for one year or until you delete
  the items. If you opt not to sign-in before
  searching, items added to folders during the
  search process are deleted when you close EBSCO
  HOST.
• Click on Sign into MY EBSCO Host
• Click on Im a New User
• Fill in all the boxes
• Write down your user name and password as GCU
  does not keep lists of EBSCO Host user
  names/passwords
• Hit the Submit button
• Return to the Basic Search screen
• To retrieve a forgotten user name or password
• From Login screen, click on I forgot
• Enter first and last name and email address,
  click Continue
• Reset screen prompts you to answer password hint
  question and enter a new password twice, click
  Continue
• Automatically logged in using your new password
  be sure to write it down

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EBSCO HOST- ERIC database

• Basic Search
• Enter your search terms in Find Box
• Search for phrases using quotation marks around
  the phrase
• children and dogs
• Select Limiters
• Do check the full text box
• If you do limit to full text, you will not
• see results listing journal titles/article
• that are in a paper or microfiche format
• If using ERIC database, limit your search to 1996
  and later
• Documents found using this limiter may be
• full text at EDRS (ERIC Document
• Reproduction Service.)

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EBSCO HOST - ERIC database

• Limiters and Expanders Box use
• this to define your search for better results
  limiters are different for each database
• Limits the search narrows the results
• Full Text returns only items you can view/print
  the entire article
• Peer-Reviewed limits results to peer-reviewed
  articles, experts in field
• Dates limits to a range of dates
• Publication limits to a particular journal
  title
• GCU holdings limits to journals indexed in
  EBSCO but the library owns in other formats
• Expands the search broadens the results
• Searches the entire text of an article
• Includes all search terms in searching
• Includes all related words in searching

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• Peer Reviewed
• Clicking on Peer-reviewed under LIMITERS asks to
  search scholarly journals only
• Peer-reviewed journals are publications that
  include only those articles that have been
  reviewed and/or qualified by a selected panel of
  acknowledged experts in the field of study
  covered by the journal
• CINAHL and Religion Philosophy along with
  Academic Search Premier all have Scholarly
  (Peer-Reviewed) boxes to select
• PsycARTICLES and ATLA Religion are all peer
  reviewed articles but do not have specific
  limiter box to check

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EBSCO HOST- ERIC database

• Basic Search Techniques
• Accepts Boolean operators AND OR NOT
• Tax and reforms finds results using both search
  terms
• Tax or reforms finds results using either search
  term, not necessarily together
• Tax not reforms finds results with search term
  tax but not reforms
• Allows truncation () and wildcards (?) use
  either symbol when searching
• for multiple spellings
• for various word endings (comput finds computer,
  computing) or
• for unknown characters (ne?t finds results
  containing neat, nest, next)
• Allows phrase searches in quotes
• Allows searching by proximity finding two or
  more words that appear a specific number of words
  apart in the article
• Near Operator N - (tax N5 reform finds results
  matching tax reform as well as reform of the tax
  code)
• Within Operator W - (tax W8 reform finds tax
  reform but would not match reform of the tax
  code)

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EBSCO HOST- ERIC database
EBSCO HOST- ERIC database

• Search Results
• Articles with EJ Numbers
• Click on Linked full text, HTML full text, or Pdf
  full text to view entire article
• Local Journals with EJ Numbers
• This journal is held in Fleming Library means it
  is in a paper or microfiche format Or, This
  journal is not held in Fleming Library means we
  do not own this journal
• ERIC Documents with ED Numbers
• Full Text from EDRS only works if you are using a
  campus computer
• Off-campus
• Write down the ED number
• Open up the ERIC Document Reproduction Service
  database
• Enter the ED numbers using Express Search

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EBSCO HOST- ERIC database

• Adding to Folder
• To add an item to your folder, click the folder
  icon on the far right
• When you are finished adding items, the folder
  will say folder has items
• Click on this folder to view items that were
  added to folder
• If the search yielded too many or too few
  results, click on the Refine Search tab
• NOTE for additional help, click on the Help
  link

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EBSCO HOST- ERIC database

• Folder List View
• Emailing Citations/Articles
• Click Email
• In Email Manager, enter email address using a
  semicolon between each email address
• Enter subject in Subject Line
• Click Remove these items from folder after email
  appears
• Select what to include brief citation, brief
  citation and abstract, detailed citation and
  abstract, HTML full text, or Pdf as separate
  attachment
• Persistent Links are automatically included in
  the email
• Click Send button
• Emailing Linked Full Text follow links directly
  to full text article (to include HTML and Pdf
  links) and then email article

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• Save Manager
• From article or citation or from the folder list,
  click Save to Disk
• The Save Manager appears
• Select format for the results to save
• Hit Save button
• Next screen says one article will be saved
• Continue by selecting File in your browsers menu
  bar, then SAVE AS
• a plain text file (.txt) or as A HTML file
  (.html)
• Click the Bibliographic Manager tab
• To include all fields in a citation, select Save
  citations in a format that can be uploaded to
  bibliographic management software
• If saving from within the folder, click Remove
  these items from folder after saving option
• Hit Save button

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EBSCO HOST - CINAHL

• Advanced Search
• Select CINAHL and Academic Search Premier (to
  pull up any full texts)
• Enter Search Terms in Find box(es)
• Click on Field Codes (in drop down box) for a
  list of codes to use
• (AU author) or
• Click on Search Tips for help on using the
  Advanced Search mode
• Use Boolean Operators
• AND finds both terms
• OR finds either term
• NOT excludes terms so results do not contain
  those specified terms
• Add Limiters or Expanders
• if needed
• Click Search button

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• Results List
• If you are logged into your account
• Add results to search history
• Add results to your folder
• Save results
• Email results
• Printing Results
• Click on HTML full text and use the print icon at
  the top of the page or use your browser print
  command
• Click on Pdf full text and use the
• print icon in the Pdf menu bar
• Click on Linked full text and follow instructions